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From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: "Procházka Lukáš Ing." <LPr@pontex.cz>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Showing value of a MP variable
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 09:33:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190308093351.0d05fde4@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.zyccaolr3h68c7@lpr>

On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 17:05:02 +0100
Procházka Lukáš Ing. <LPr@pontex.cz> wrote:

> is it possible (namely for debugging) values of MP variables (be it on the console or in the log)?
> 
> I thought there is MP command "show" (mentioned in mpman.pdf) for this

message(pt) ;

puts it into the (context) log.

show

is a MetaPost command that will get included in the log with:

\enabletrackers [metapost.showlog]


Alan
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      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-08 16:33 UTC|newest]

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2019-03-08 16:05 Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2019-03-08 16:33 ` Alan Braslau [this message]

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